Acknowledgements Introduction Artistic Research The Cinematic as Mode of Existence The Global Media Network The Cinematic Technology Chapter Overview Chapter 1 Video Surveillance versus the Affected Personal Cam 1.1 Internalizing the Camera 1.2 Affects and the Cinematic Potential: Affected Personal Cam 26 1.2.1 The Owner as Embryonic Filmmaker 1.2.2 A Camera of Affects 1.3 Observing the Observer Observing the Observed 1.4 The Affected Body of the Camera 1.5 Privacy and Subjectification Chapter 2 Post-Panopticism and the Attention Economy 2.1 The Apparatus 2.2 The Panopticon 2.3 Post-Panopticism 2.4 Attention Economy 2.4.1 Beyond Cinema and into the Realm of Surveillance 2.4.2 The Relation between the Attention Economy and Post-Panopticism 2.5 The City as Film Set Chapter 3 From Cinematographic to Cinematic Apparatus 3.1 The Classical Cinematographic Apparatus 3.1.1 The Camera 3.1.1.1 Cinematography 3.1.2 Projection: The Projector and the Screen 3.1.3 Spectatorship 3.1.4 Editing 3.1.5 The Mise-en-Scène, Acting and Authorship 3.2 The Cinematic Experience Chapter Cinematic Chronotopes: The Temporality of the Cinematic Mode of Existence of the Webcams 88 4.1 The Cinematic 4.2 From Real Time to Realtime 4.3 Webcam Temporality and Realtime: A Synthesis of Cinematic Time and Network Time 4.3.1 Cinematic Time 4.3.2 Network Time and Realtime 4.4 Realtime-generated Cinematic Chronotopes Chapter Webcams and the Archive 5.1 Referentiality 5.1.1 Archiving Time — Index, as Trace and Deixis 5.1.2 The Indexicality of the Digital 5.2 Materiality 5.2.1 The Computer as Archive: A Matter of Code 5.2.2 Fragile Memory 5.3 Narrative 5.3.1 Code as Logos — Anticipating and Programming Future Flows 5.4 The Fragmented Historicity of the Digital Flux 5.5 The Database Logic of New Media Objects Chapter 6 Appropriating the Cinematic Apparatus 6.1 On Appropriation 6.2 The Significance of the Precarious Aesthetic 6.2.1 Hito Steyerl: the Poor Image 6.2.2 Harun Farocki: The Contamination of Surveillance 6.2.3 Walid Raad: The Atlas Group Archive 6.3 Afterword Conclusion Bibliography List of Images Index of Authours Index of Makers Index of Subjects/Artworks